Hose-protector for railway-tracks.



- 1No..7|4,l26. Patented Nov. 25, I902 H. H. ARNOLD.

HOSE PROTECTOR FOR RAILWAY TRACKS.

(Applicltion filed July 10, 1902.1 y

(lo Model.)

ONITED ATENT OFFIQE.

HARRY H. ARNOLD, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANKBAUER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

HOS E-PROTECTOR FOR RAILWAY-TRACKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 714,126, datedNovember 25, 1902.

Application filed July 10, 1902. Serial No. 115,102. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY HOWARD AR- NOLD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHose-Protectors for Railway-Tracks, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification. 4

My invention relates to a simple, novel,and efficient bridging devicethat can be instantly applied to the rails of street or steam carswithin a citys limit or wherever a fire department would be likely to becalled upon, such device being intended to form a temporary bridge overthe rails to permit the passage of cars or trains, while at the sametime in cases of fire the hose of the fire department might be laidunder said bridge, across the tracks, and over the ordinary railswithout the possibility of injury to the hose and without preventing thepassage of cars where such hose are laid, thereby preventing theblocking of the track or tracks and the stoppage of the cars in cases offire where it was found necessary to carry the hose over the ordinarytracks and without suspending the same.

The novelty of my invention will be hereinafter more fully set forth,and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of astreet-railway track of ordinaryconstruction, showing the application ofmy bridging device and two lines of hose passed thereunder. Fig. 2 isaplan view of the same with one line of hose shown. in dotted lines.Fig. 3 is a transverse section of Fig. 2, taken on either of the dottedlines of Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts inall the figures.

My device consists, essentially, of two end anchor-plates A, which areadapted to fit over the rails B and be secured thereto in any suitablemanner, the simplest and most convenient means being pins a, projectingthrough the plates and adapted to enter the ground on each side of thetracks to form holdingstays. These anchor-plates have an inclinedrail-surface on their upper sides fitting snugly to the track at b atone end and rising above the same at c at the opposite end, and to theseplates are attached sections of elevated rails C, detachably connectedtogether in any suitable manner and supported on pillow-blocks D ofsufficient height to permit the passage under the rails C of thefire-department hose E, which rest upon the surface of the ordinaryrails B. The pillow-blocks D are likewise provided with stay-pins d,which straddle the rail and enter the surface of the road- -way tosecurely anchor the same against endwise movement. I prefer to makethese pillow-blocks in two parts vertically adjustable on each other bymeans of bolts 6, so that any number of such blocks may be employed inone bridge construction and their height may be regulated thereby.

The upper surface of the bridge-rails C is made to conform to thesurface of the rails B, so that a car or train passing over the samewill have the same tread as on the rails B, and the sections of rails Care detachably bolted by bolts f to the pillow-blocks D to enable anynumber of such sections to be applied to the bridging device.

In the present instance I have shown but three pillow-blocks with twosections of rails C, each curved downward and secured at their ends tothe anchor-blocks A and meeting at their level portions over the middlepillowblock, and this is probably the most convenient and simpleconstruction for street-rail-' way purposes.

The two elevated rails C are connected by tie-rods F,Figs. 2 and 3,withdownturned ends entering perforated ears G, projecting from the sides ofthe rails C, so that such tie-rods may be removed when desired and as afurther convenience I connect the two sections by links 77;, pivotedtogether at their middle, as at 'i, and pivoted to the oppositerail-sections, as atj.

The purpose is for each car to carry one of my complete bridgeequipments folded and connected together by the links h, and in case ofa fire the same can be laid upon the ordi- I IOO of the hose the nextpassing car would take up the temporary bridging device and carry it onto the terminus, to he delivered to the car from which it originallycame.

In this very simple and efficient device I provide a means for thepassage of cars over lines of hose Without injury to the latter andwithout detention to the cars, as will be readily understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim 1. A hose-protectorfor railway-tracks comprising essentially anchor-plates at each end, andintermediate bridging-rails secured to said anchor-plates and extendingabove the HARRY H. ARNOLD.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM BROWN ARNOLD, EDWARD BURKARD.

